Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps

Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social protection have increasingly emerged as a policy response tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict or natural disasters. This paper presents a descriptive literature review of non-contributory humanitarian assistance in...

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Main Authors:	Jeong, Dahyeon, Trako, Iva
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INTERVENTIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICY RESPONSE HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS CRISIS-AFFECTED POPULATIONS NATURAL DISASTER RESPONSE SOCIAL COHESION CONFLICT ASSISTANCE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY CASH AND IN-KIND TRANSFERS
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spelling	okr-10986-373692022-09-15T18:10:46Z Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps Jeong, Dahyeon Trako, Iva HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INTERVENTIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICY RESPONSE HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS CRISIS-AFFECTED POPULATIONS NATURAL DISASTER RESPONSE SOCIAL COHESION CONFLICT ASSISTANCE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY CASH AND IN-KIND TRANSFERS Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social protection have increasingly emerged as a policy response tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict or natural disasters. This paper presents a descriptive literature review of non-contributory humanitarian assistance interventions in low-and-middle income countries. It uses evidence from twenty-one experimental or quasi-experimental studies to understand the effects on five outcome categories: (i) basic needs, (ii) financial outcomes, (iii) gender, (iv) human development, and (v) social cohesion. The findings show that gender, human development, and social cohesion are the least explored outcomes in humanitarian contexts. Moreover, evidence is scarce on the comparative performance of different modalities (for example, cash vs. in-kind), targeting mechanisms, cost-effectiveness of alternative interventions, heterogeneity analysis, and longer- term effects of interventions. The paper makes the case that there is a high dividend to be earned from conducting more impact evaluations in humanitarian settings. 2022-05-03T18:05:29Z 2022-05-03T18:05:29Z 2022-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099445304272240978/IDU01240088a0d11904ded09c4b0aa5fc374c8d8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37369 English Policy Research Working Paper;10026 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INTERVENTIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICY RESPONSE HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS CRISIS-AFFECTED POPULATIONS NATURAL DISASTER RESPONSE SOCIAL COHESION CONFLICT ASSISTANCE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY CASH AND IN-KIND TRANSFERS
spellingShingle	HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INTERVENTIONS SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICY RESPONSE HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS CRISIS-AFFECTED POPULATIONS NATURAL DISASTER RESPONSE SOCIAL COHESION CONFLICT ASSISTANCE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT POLICY CASH AND IN-KIND TRANSFERS Jeong, Dahyeon Trako, Iva Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
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description	Over the past decade, humanitarian assistance and social protection have increasingly emerged as a policy response tool to support crisis-affected populations facing conflict or natural disasters. This paper presents a descriptive literature review of non-contributory humanitarian assistance interventions in low-and-middle income countries. It uses evidence from twenty-one experimental or quasi-experimental studies to understand the effects on five outcome categories: (i) basic needs, (ii) financial outcomes, (iii) gender, (iv) human development, and (v) social cohesion. The findings show that gender, human development, and social cohesion are the least explored outcomes in humanitarian contexts. Moreover, evidence is scarce on the comparative performance of different modalities (for example, cash vs. in-kind), targeting mechanisms, cost-effectiveness of alternative interventions, heterogeneity analysis, and longer- term effects of interventions. The paper makes the case that there is a high dividend to be earned from conducting more impact evaluations in humanitarian settings.
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author	Jeong, Dahyeon Trako, Iva
author_facet	Jeong, Dahyeon Trako, Iva
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title	Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
title_short	Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
title_full	Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
title_fullStr	Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
title_full_unstemmed	Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps
title_sort	cash and in-kind transfers in humanitarian settings : a review of evidence and knowledge gaps
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
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Cash and In-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Settings : A Review of Evidence and Knowledge Gaps

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